Comments on: David Ortiz rips David Price, calls him “a little girl” and “a little b-tch”http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/31/david-ortiz-rips-david-price-calls-him-a-little-girl-and-a-little-b-tch/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 22:35:12 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: don444http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/31/david-ortiz-rips-david-price-calls-him-a-little-girl-and-a-little-b-tch/comment-page-3/#comment-716880
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:43:11 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-716880Seems to me Ortiz is just a big bitch, so really, what’s the difference? Great hitter who can lay legitimate claim to being the best DH ever at this point, but he talks too much in general, a common human failing, and has long since exposed himself as a simpleton for the most part whether Red Sox fans care to embrace that reality or not.
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Wed, 04 Jun 2014 00:03:18 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-715609It’s his on the field performance that DOESN’T matter, since his achievements are by way of PED’s.
And by the way, what do you suppose happened when he was just about washed up a few years ago, and then suddenly became a great hitter again?
Hmmm?
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Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:24:14 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714946Big Papt-Big Poopi!
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Sun, 01 Jun 2014 21:27:49 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714484I meant “doesn’t” fit.

“These graphs only plot calls made by the home plate umpire. In other words, they only plot balls and called strikes. No other pitches or results are included. Intuitively, this provides a representation of the strikezone for each game.

Each pitch is represented by a single dot. Green dots are balls and red dots are strikes. Pitches marked as belonging to a particular team (for example “bos” or “nya”) are designated with different shapes. These teams represent the pitching team…

These are from the Umpire’s perspective, not the Pitcher’s perspective.”

Okay, so now that we all know how to interpret the map, what does it tell us? According to the Wikipedia article on Hit by Pitch, “A pitch ruled a hit by pitch is recorded as a ball in the pitcher’s pitch count…,” but it’s not clear whether the BrooksBaseball.net StrikeZone maps include HBPs. They do have another tool (Pitchf/x tool) which specifically plots the results of every result of a pitch into one of eight categories, one of which is HBP. But the results of that game are apparently not yet available. It wouldn’t come up when I tried to use the tool.

dprat says,

“I see two inside pitches to lefties out of 45-50 thrown. Clearly he works lefties essentially exclusively on the outer half.”

But the graph nolasoxfan2012 linked to shows only one inside pitch to a left-handed batter by a Tampa Bay Ray pitcher in the entire game (and just two inside pitches by Boston pitchers). And it’s 4 feet high! How did a 4 foot high pitch hit Ortiz in the butt?

I conclude that the BrooksBaseball StrikeZone maps do not incude HBPs.

“These graphs only plot calls made by the home plate umpire. In other words, they only plot balls and called strikes. No other pitches or results are included. Intuitively, this provides a representation of the strikezone for each game.

Each pitch is represented by a single dot. Green dots are balls and red dots are strikes. Pitches marked as belonging to a particular team (for example “bos” or “nya”) are designated with different shapes. These teams represent the pitching team…

These are from the Umpire’s perspective, not the Pitcher’s perspective.”

Okay, so now that we all know how to interpret the map, what does it tell us? According to the Wikipedia article on “Hit by Pitch

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Sun, 01 Jun 2014 06:09:34 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714272I just made up a list that has your name on it,Harry. See how difficult that is? A-roid doesn’t belong in the same story since he’s had…repeated issues.
Was there a penalty in 2003 for PED use in MLB? If so, why wasn’t everyone on the list penalized?

You know what a clear sign of steroid abuse is? Your leg breaking for no apparent reason while playing shortstop. See how easy it is to just post BS with nothing to back it up?

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Sun, 01 Jun 2014 01:27:57 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714185I don’t mean it’s sad how the Borg is playing. Quality of play can change at any time, unless you happen to suffer from a prion-vectored neurological disorder like die Vloek van der Geitbok. No, I mean that it’s sad to see bad blood between the Razed and Beanbags eclipsing the traditional bad blood between the Beanbags and the Borg. Boston shouldn’t lose sight of who they really hate. That would be tragic, indeed.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2014 01:14:49 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714169It doesn’t offend anyone
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Sun, 01 Jun 2014 01:14:04 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714168Ugh, enough of the language police
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Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:18:54 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714151Pretty sure most of America enjoyed A-Rod getting thrown at.
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Sat, 31 May 2014 23:51:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714130Big Pu$$y that’s a good one!
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Sat, 31 May 2014 23:48:59 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714128Strike 3: home of the whining choker Boston Bruins.
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Sat, 31 May 2014 23:47:27 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714124Ortiz has two strikes against him when it comes to stayin calm:

1) he loves a roid milkshake
2) machismo

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Sat, 31 May 2014 22:39:04 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714091“What was the drug Ortiz supposedly failed a test on? You don’t know and can’t back it up.”

Ortiz was on the same list that A-Rod was on in 2003 of players who tested positive for PED and none of the players on the list were ever exposed for what caused their failure. Neither A-Rod nor Ortiz has failed a test since. So, by your logic A-Rod shouldn’t be suspended because since he was on the same list but never failed a test so you can’t point to any one PED.

In this case it a specious argument that because one can’t say exactly what he failed for the one “can’t back it up. In general when you the biggest part of your rebuttal is calling into question someones intelligence it doesn’t strengthen your argument it merely points out that you don’t really have one.

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Sat, 31 May 2014 22:17:50 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714085If Youkilis could go to the Yankees, when Joba was still there I wouldn’t discount anything. Besides, the RS could use all the pitching help they can get.
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Sat, 31 May 2014 22:11:38 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714083” So, why sports media”

So while sports media….

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Sat, 31 May 2014 22:10:31 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714081Oh course had Ortiz not called him a little girl there would be no fuel. So, why sports media exploit these feelings, .. they real.
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Sat, 31 May 2014 22:07:43 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714080The Borg are ahead of both of these teams. They’d likely be in first place id Toronto hadn’t had a spectacular two weeks. And, that’s with having to get by with their number 6, 7, and 8 starters holding down the fort. Suck on that!
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Sat, 31 May 2014 22:03:24 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714077Seems that Ortiz is famous for making statements. I believe in one statement “he was going to get back to us on how his name got in the Mitchell Report”. Guess he and OJ are using the same PI to investigate their cases and David is just filling with other statements while he continues to NOT get back to us on the PED matter.
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Sat, 31 May 2014 21:42:03 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714071If Ortiz isn’t careful, MTV might cancel the show he produces for them. Because you know how MTV frowns upon histrionics, name-calling, and misogyny.
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Sat, 31 May 2014 21:35:30 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714069Price is a bitch. Good pitcher, but an unlikable puke.
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Sat, 31 May 2014 21:31:12 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714068What’s with the Rays getting so chesty lately? And I don’t feel sorry for them when they say they get disrespected by the Sox but then they go out and act like punks. How can anyone respect the Rays when they act like a bunch of babies? They need to learn how to play the game with class.
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Sat, 31 May 2014 21:14:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714065Papajack, Id give you countless thumbs up if I could. Whining about Ortiz not being politically correct in his choice of words when the man was educated in ANOTHER COUNTRY makes DJ Short much less credible in my eyes for whining about it.
The idiot ump who lost control of this game deserves a fastball off his mask. Maybe then he’d wake up I have never seen so many warnings followed by no action unless the borg were pitching.
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Sat, 31 May 2014 21:08:37 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714063Hitting A-Roid was a public service. Besides, Dempster had trouble hitting the strike zone, so god job! Workman should be fined for missing Longoria!
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Sat, 31 May 2014 21:06:09 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714062What steroid was it Ortiz failed a test on? Oh, you don’t know? Shocking. Do all you room temperature IQ mouth breathers read the same single syllable notes before posting?
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Sat, 31 May 2014 21:03:05 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714061Nothing sad about the borg spending a billion or so and still sucking.Nothing sad about that at all.
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Sat, 31 May 2014 21:02:04 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=523634#comment-714060In terms of childish and dangerous behavior? Yes.
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